I won't get too worried about what the tech bros are up to until they finally make an automated soap dispenser and hand dryer that actually works.

there's this thing i call "cop math" basically, when you catch someone abusing power to cause harm and they're being real confident or real casual about it, stop and ask yourself, "how much human misery is flowing out of this one person into the world, if this evil thing is just a *habit* to them?"

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Let me tell you about the time I was held by US Customs and had my passport seized because my presentation and the way I packed did not match my ID. And this was during the "friendly" time of Obama. It'll be much worse now

it's very kind that you all overlook my typos

Finally got to cover some good drug policy news for a change! My latest with @filtermag.bsky.social :

🧋😏 ... far more takers than one might think,, 🤌🏼👀 #TheCivilityOfNormal

Supreme Court of Canada's "ruling clarified that people who make a potentially life-saving call — along with the people who are overdosing and others at the scene — are protected from being arrested or charged for drug possession, even if police [..] see drugs." #Canada #Courts #Drugs #Policing

More doodles

🍵😶 seems generalizable beyond BC, fam,,

This thread is 🔥🎯🔥

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A funny thing about the way policing works in Canada is that it's effectively a fourth—unelected—level of government. Policing is not under the control of the municipality. The city controls transport, and parks, and so on, but policing is not controlled by the city, or by voters.

I've seen it suggested that city council should approve the dramatic increase in the police budget because the province will step in and overrule them. City council should deny the increase rather than complying in advance. Make provincial politicians take responsibility if they want to.

Municipalities in BC dramatically raising police budgets during the housing crisis is not accidental. Police are useful for sweeping away homeless people, to hide the evidence of the housing crisis. Because politicians have no intention to solve it, they want to hide it instead.

Harbord cyclists beware: in the new lanes some sewer grates have been put in the death position by contractors. This @ Manning just ate my tire but luckily was coming to a stop. Jarring still. At speed I’d be over the handlebars. There were others along way.

Huge decision this Friday from the BC Supreme Court on whether the DULF compassion club organizers, Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, walk free. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...

The City of Victoria might slash grants and programs across the board to make up for one single line item that's roughly equivalent to everything being cut. Can anyone guess what that single budget item is, which apparently isn't even up for debate? One guess.

I'm going to need my fellow nerds to refrain from "oh here's how you fix it" or "you should use Linux" and instead focus on the fact that this is an anti-consumer practice and help raise hell over it.

It’s scary when a fast moving thing passes you unexpectedly. Drivers, please pass cyclists slowly and carefully. Consider the relative ease and convenience you travel with. Cyclists and other rollers, please slow down to maybe a jogging pace. Let’s practice what we preach. Walkers, watch for 🐌!

Gavin Newsom is a loser whom I shall organize against because he is an anti-trans bigot. If he were the only Democrat on the ticket, I would campaign hard against him. No pasaran, fascist appeasers.

Housing is not going to be affordable until we can list our landlords as dependents on our tax returns.

What if part of conservative theory is: how do I avoid feeling dependent on the people who take care of me? If farm workers, restaurant staff, delivery drivers, nurses, garbage collectors, cleaners, construction workers, and more suddenly disappeared, what would we do? We can't live without them.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Nearly all of the #Gaza Strip’s residents have been displaced. Following the start of the ceasefire, many families tried to return to their homes, most to find only rubble. According to the United Nations Satellite Centre, around 81% of all structures in Gaza are damaged.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

It's not that as a society we cannot afford to allow everyone to live with dignity, only that we cannot allow everyone to live with dignity while maintaining power and special privileges for a small group of people.

abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who participated in these illegal and immoral attacks on the public

oh my god it's beautiful

🧋😏 "What Sinners captures so clearly is a pattern that repeats across history: how systems offer freedom selectively, not to uplift but to preserve themselves. Instead of shutting people out entirely, they let just enough in. They offer access in exchange for assimilation, usefulness, or

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

The @thebreakdownab.bsky.social republished the OpEd the by @guyfelicella.bsky.social that was removed by the @calgaryherald.com. You can read it here thebreakdownab.substack.com/p/opinion-cr...

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Moving to the Liberals is a perfectly natural move for a conservative. And for their part, the Libs only welcome right wing policy and reps, so this is as exciting a transformation as pouring water into a bathtub.

Do Canadian police feel even the slightest sense of self-awareness as they say they plan to increase "public safety" by increasing policing, as the US deploys armed agents to in a mirror-image "public safety" campaign that's clearly just race and class-based violence?

Calgary police are on a rampage downtown, using drones to find people and clear them off streets. Posting photos of unhoused folks they arrest (see twitter). It’s collective punishment for social disorder and violence they have failed to improve with prior violence. Film the cops if you see them.

They've got millions to donate to political campaigns but ZERO to actually help people who need help. Speaks volumes.

Just got blocked by a follower who claimed that Trudeau did not lie about electoral reform, which is perhaps the most documented political lie in modern Canadian political history.

The amount of doublethink going on in Liberal circles is astounding. I would argue that this, even more than misinformation on the Right, is what's priming Canada for authoritarianism.

People sympathize with billionaires because they can relate to the feeling of not wanting to give up hard-earned money to pay for things that don't benefit you directly. Mamdani avoids that sympathy by reminding people that they can't relate to the feeling of having enough money to buy real power.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Why did they say “No Kings” instead of “No Nazis”? Because invoking the actual threat fascism presents, and pointing to the solution, would be the mathematical proof that a Democrat party is no longer needed. Probably provably complicit, even.

“We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.”

Canada’s debt is modest, self-financed, and stable. Yet we are told to accept austerity as the “responsible” path forward. Deficit panic is really a strategy to limit what’s politically imaginable—universal services, public housing, and climate action.

hey can we also talk about how nuts it is that they could stage a jury trial for Sandwich Guy within weeks when other people's cases are kicking around (often while they languish in jail) for months or even years

Carney’s budget is a Harper era Conservative budget with a Liberal label.

Looking at the electoral maps, and Upper East, Whitestone, Staten Island — the places that are isolated by lack of mass transit naturally become reactionary and insular. It’s why the transit secretary loves fucking with bike lanes and congestion pricing and yet another reason why cars are the devil